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Info-Hams Digest Thu, 9 Dec 93 Volume 93 : Issue 1439
Today's Topics:
10m sked needed
94 MHz L.O./ Case Ground???????
Alinco DJF1T-HP dead
ARRL's callsign admin position
Diodes of config. on Knw
ENDEAVOUR
Hamblaster updates
HYPOCRISY WARNING (was Re: Pyramid Schemes)
LX1NW QSL
Reporting Constant QRM: who?
Scratchi, January, 1960 (2 msgs)
Scratchi article
Weird QRM
Windows Based Ham Programs
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Date: Mon, 6 Dec 1993 21:20:52 GMT
From: nntp.ucsb.edu!library.ucla.edu!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!howland.reston.ans.net!math.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!usenet.ucs.indiana.edu!silver.ucs.indiana.edu!djadams@network.ucsd.edu
Subject: 10m sked needed
To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
Greetings! I've put up a new 10m dipole and would like to try it out
this weekend. I'll be calling on USB around 28.350khz between 1500
and 1600 this saturday....(that should be 28.350Mhz, by the way)...
Could anyone with their radios on make a special effort to listen for
my call? Thanx.
73 de Dave, N9UXU
David J Adams, N9UXU Internet: djadams@silver.ucs.indiana.edu
Amiga User and Flow Cytometry Advocate
Looking for a mobile 2m and/or 70cm rig
Conure Society of America. "Push the button Frank..."
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Date: Tue, 07 Dec 1993 17:18:04 GMT
From: yuma!galen@purdue.edu
Subject: 94 MHz L.O./ Case Ground???????
To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
I'm building a 94 MHz Local Oscillator, and the transistor has a case
ground pin. Should I ground it or cut it off? It's an NPN transistor
in a TO-72 case (little metal can).
Many thanks,
Galen, KF0YJ
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Date: 3 Dec 1993 09:49:26 -0500
From: swrinde!sdd.hp.com!hpscit.sc.hp.com!hpuerca.atl.hp.com!hpuerca!edh@network.ucsd.edu
Subject: Alinco DJF1T-HP dead
To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
In<1993Dec2.181411.1575@venus.ic.cmc.ca>pas@jupitercmc.ca (Peter Stokes) writes:
>When looking for an HT, I was warned to keep away from the
>Alinco rigs due to reliability problems. I bought a Yaesu
>FT530. No problems with it in its first 4 months of life.
>Peter
!!Bad enough that Peter shyed away from Alinco on the basis
of the rumor-mill. I'm glad he is happy with his Yaesu; they
make fine products. Unfortunate that he felt the need to post
a negative comment on the Alinco _without_ any personal use!!
For the record: My house of hams has a DJ-160, two DJ-580's,
and a DR-590 mounted in my truck using the remote head kit.
We have dropped the h/t's, used them till the case filled with
rain water, drained the battery packs sequentially during long
days of public service work, and overheated the poor things by
using them in some pretty trying packet work (when our Kenwood
mobile rig used for packet gave up the ghost). They bounce around
in our vehicles without complaint and have never failed in use.
I've never gotten a bad signal report while using any of these
radios. Other than the unfortunate choice of placement of the
SCAN button on the DR-590, I have no operational compliants.
The above is all hands-on. And yes, I own other brands as well;
the original question was about the DJ-F1. I have used the F1;
a friend owns one and is very happy with it. Using his F1 helped
pursuade me to buy the DJ-580's for my wife and myself. My friend
is not alone in his satisfaction with the DJ-F1 as he convinced
some other hams to get the same radio.
It is unfortunate about the original poster experiencing a failure.
Electronic devices, radio and otherwise, are funny about that. I
_could_ comment on failures I've personnally seen on other ham
rigs. That would also beg the question of the Alinco rigs. So far,
my personal use has been highly satisfactory; I have seen enough
other satisfied users to conclude I am not an isolated case.
Cheers & 73
Ed Humphries--N5RCK
Hewlett Packard NARC Atlanta GA
edh@hpuerca.atl.hp.com
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Date: Mon, 6 Dec 1993 14:47:53 GMT
From: netcomsv!netcom.com!greg@decwrl.dec.com
Subject: ARRL's callsign admin position
To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
In article <2dvabk$3og@mailer.fsu.edu> michaela@freenet2.scri.fsu.edu (Michael Christie) writes:
>
>Re: Call Sign Administration Hassle
>
>Nice set of comments, Brian. You are right on target.
>
>ARRL needs to proceed slowly and responsibly on this one. I thought
>they had their "politically smart" hat on these days, but after this
>recent nonesense, I'm not so sure.
I see no indication that the ARRL has changed the fundamental assumption
which it has held over the years. Despite changing the wording of the
'Ham Radio Creed,' or whatever that rhetoric is, their fundamental
position remains the same. (Does anyone remember the dreck under
'The Radio Amateur is Loyal' heading? The bit about 'he owes his
amateur radio to the ARRL and offers it his unswerving loyalty?' That's
what has changed, some time following the infamous ARRL vs. Wayne Green
'support incentive licensing or we'll sue you and drive you out of
business' stuff.)
As far as I can tell, the ARRL's position is that they are the one and only
voice of Amateur Radio in the US, whatever position the Board takes is
immediately the one with which the majority of US Amateurs concur, and
any interface to Federal policymakers should be through them, and them
alone.
As evidence for this, I take:
1) The League's history of opposing any petition which does not
come through them, as a matter of routine (a.k.a. 'not invented
here' syndrome')
2) Having been told by League officers and staffers that if I
left the ARRL, I was giving up all of my representation in
Washington (as if I don't vote in Federal elections?).
3) Having watched, over the years, the ARRL's vigorous
opposition to anyone or anything which presumed to encroach
on 'its' territory. Particularly unfortunate, IMO, have been
some of the underhanded efforts to silence anyone who would
either compete for a role or present an opposing opinion.
In the ARRL's defense, I think that much of this has been in the honest
belief that it is necessary to present the FCC bureaucracy with a united
front. The latter is probably sensible, where possible. However, the
League, in its zeal to do the best thing for the hobby, has all too
often forgotten that this is a pluralistic society. I suspect that
such oversight has caused particular rancor because of the number of
people who are aware that it is only in a pluralistic society that
ordinary folk are given the key (ahem) or microphone to a radio station
which is capable of blanketing the entire society, indeed the globe, with
the ideas of those ordinary folk.
It seems to me that the Board of Directors would do well, in presenting
position papers to the FCC, to pursue a policy of also bringing forward
an occasional 'dissenting opinion,' from within the ranks of amateur
radio. In doing so, they would increase their stock by demonstrating that
they truly ARE representative of amateur radio as a whole.
As far as I can tell, (my literature collection goes back pretty far), the
ARRL had few enemies from within the ranks until the mid-sixties and the
incentive licensing debacle (and by 'debacle,' I don't mean the fact that
we now have incentive licensing, I mean the manner in which the parties
interacted at the time). That was almost thirty years ago.
It seems to me that it's high time that the ARRL board went to some
lengths to extend an olive branch to the enemies made by another board,
a generation ago. And, in the process, to try and understand how previous
boards made enemies, and modify practices such that this ideal of being
truly representative can be acheived. After thirty years, it's clear that
it won't be achieved by trying to whip the rank and file into line.
Greg
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Date: Tue, 7 Dec 1993 17:16:13 GMT
From: sdd.hp.com!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!EU.net!news.inesc.pt!animal.inescn.pt!bart!avale@network.ucsd.edu
Subject: Diodes of config. on Knw
To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
Hello,
I have one Kenwood TR751E all mode 2m, and I need use the
tone encoder TU-7 that I already have.
In the schematic and tecnical manual do not refer what to do with the config.
diodes D3, D4, D5, D6 and D7 on the Control Unit. What are the individual funcion
of each other. The D14 is on the owner manual and is to config. the step, but
the others!? I only need to inform the unit that he has the TU-7 installed.
If anyone of you have this kind of information, or the email/internet of Kenwood,
I will thank you a lot.
73, Antonio (CT1DZY) E-mail: avale@bart.inescn.pt
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Date: 8 Dec 93 13:32:25 GMT
From: ogicse!emory!news-feed-1.peachnet.edu!gatech!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!not-for-mail@network.ucsd.edu
Subject: ENDEAVOUR
To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
>
> Does anybody know what frequency/frequencies the Endeavour shuttle-craft
> will be using on it's latest mission to repair the Hubble?
> Graham (VE7 BBZ)
>
>
This was posted last week on r.r.scanner:
>From: msaran@pt.olympus.net (Mark Saran)
>Newsgroups: rec.radio.scanner
>Subject: heard sts last pm
>Date: 5 Dec 1993 16:59:08 -0800
Had a fun experience last night. Before I went to bed I put all the STS
freq's that I knew of in my scanner. Because I am so far north (20 miles
from Canada) I knew that I was right on the edge of STS-61's footprint and
there would be some passes in the middle of the night. I was surprised to
be able to hear about 1 min. of audio from an eva. The signal faded very
fast.
Sorry I can't tell you what freq or time. - I choose to go back to sleep
-so much for my dedication to the hobby.
Possible freq.'s are:
296.8 MHz - air to ground, or orbiter to suit
259.7 MHz - air to ground, or suit to orbiter
279.0 MHz - suit to orbiter or suit to suit
243.0 MHz - standard Mil aircraft emergency freq.
Others 259.8 MHz 324.9838 MHz
Good hunting
--
Mark Saran
msaran@pt.olympus.net
Peter Laws <plaws@comp.uark.edu> | "That's the President of the United States
n5uwy@ka5bml.ar.usa.noam | you're talking about, pinhead."-VP Al Gore
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Date: Mon, 6 Dec 1993 18:01:52 GMT
From: amiserv!vpnet!tellab5!jwa@uunet.uu.net
Subject: Hamblaster updates
To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
The Hamblaster Update
Over the past several months I posted updates about a
DSP "The Hamblaster" that Will Torgrim (N9PEA) and myself
are developing.
We are focusing our efforts on a packet modem that allows
the user to improve H.F. reception by interfacing the Ham-
blaster (a PC compatable DSP sound board) to a transceiver
and a packet or all mode TNC. Modems/filters for RTTY,
Packtor, Amtor are also under developement and are compatable
with the same control panal software.
Here are the latest developements
1) The packet modem is loaded from a disk file and allows the
user to interface to his radio using an A to A (analog to
analog) connection. The DSP outputs a regenerated FSK
signal that can be tuned to match the TNC or RTTY modem.
The DSP also has a digital connection (A to D) for inter
facing directly to the TNC's digital logic. I use a cable
that connects a PK232 via the external modem port.
2) We do Windows! I spent about 16 hours this weekend on
the Windows software. There's a receive/demodulator
control panal that allows me to control the FSK demo-
dulator's filter center frequency using a mouse driven
slidebar. There's also an on screen tuning indicator that
mirrors the tuning slidebar. You tune the filter by moving
the mouse cursor over the filter tune slide bar button and
when you press the left mouse button the slide bar button
moves.
3) A new option allows me to lock the tuning indicator to the
"Filter Tune" slide bar. The Hamblaster sends frequency in-
formation, that it hears at the output of the first filter,
to the PC via the PC's I/O epansion port. Even in noisy
conditions it can count the center frequency of an FSK signal.
The tuning indicator does jump around in noisy conditions
4) A new Windows control panel provides an on screen digital
storage oscilloscope. By pressing the "SNAP SHOT" button,
you can capture 4 signals and display the traces in a graphics
window. The traces can be resized or you can move the window
left or right. About 100 ms per trace is aquired.
The modem block diagram
/ Mark filt\
input--filter1--limiter--filter2 --slicer--data
\ Space filt/
You can select or attach the 4 traces to any of the signals that
are displayed on a block diagram in the o-scope control panal.
The Hamblaster captures the signals and stores them in it's own
memory. Then the PC gets the data from the Hamblaster via the
PC I/O port and stores it in the PC memory. Then the software
displays the aquisition by getting the data from the PC RAM.
The process takes about 2 to 3 seconds (the DOS version takes
about 1/2 the time to execute).
5) Using Windows multitasking, you can run the Hamblaster software
and your favorate a packet program (like PC Packratt). I was even
able to run two instances of the same Hamblaster software. Both
control panals displayed the tune bar and responded it real time.
I also got two o-scope aquisitions.
Ongoing developments;
1 Post detection carrier detect.
2 HDL protocol decoding
3 Morse code detection/regeneration
4 Adaptive voice filter.
5 FFT analysis.
6 Sound recording.
7 DTMF & PL tone detection.
---
Jack Albert Fellow Radio Hacker
Tele (708) 378-6201
Tellabs Operations, Inc. FAX (708) 378-4590
1000 Remington Blvd. jwa@tellabs.com
Bolingbrook, IL 60440
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Date: Thu, 2 Dec 1993 21:46:52 GMT
From: netcomsv!netcom.com!msattler@decwrl.dec.com
Subject: HYPOCRISY WARNING (was Re: Pyramid Schemes)
To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
Dana Myers (myers@cypress.West.Sun.COM) wrote:
: Goodness, you mean Jeff "CENSORSHIP WARNING" Herman actually supports
: the censorship of someone's Usenet access based on the content of the messages
: they send?
There *is* a difference between an opinion you don't like and
an "intent to defraud" (in the words of the U.S. Postal Service).
Anyone pushing Ponzi (pyramid) schemes deserves to be flogged
with a mag-mount 2m antennae (IMHO).
--
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Michael S. Sattler msattler@netcom.com +1 (415) 621-2903
Digital Jungle Software Encrypt now; ask me how. (finger for PGP key)
All that is required for evil to triumph is
for {wo}men of good will to do nothing.
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Date: Fri, 3 Dec 93 13:35:00 -0600
From: nntp.ucsb.edu!library.ucla.edu!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!howland.reston.ans.net!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!menudo.uh.edu!nuchat!cld9!mario.campos@network.ucsd.edu
Subject: LX1NW QSL
To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
Quoting HAM@WAM.UMD.EDU to ALL concerning LX1NW QSL info?:
+- HAM@WAM.UMD.EDU to ALL --------------------------------------------+
| |
|sible QSL manager before I go and spend a buck and a half to get this|
|card? |
+---------------------------------------------------------------------+
A buck and a half! God, I sent more than that 15 years ago to get needed
cards - $2 & $3. Loosen up - send the guy a couple green stamps!
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Mario A. Campos - N6ALS | mario.campos@nitelog.com | DXCC #24824
Monterey, CA 93940 USA | N6ALS@K6LY.#NOCAL.CA.USA.NA | WAS #33960
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Message written at 8:23am, on Friday, December 3, 1993.
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Date: Thu, 2 Dec 1993 21:50:07 GMT
From: netcomsv!netcom.com!msattler@decwrl.dec.com
Subject: Reporting Constant QRM: who?
To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
Randy (randy@cyphyn.radnet.com) wrote:
: For the past couple of years this one guy ( who everyone knows ) has
: been causing malicious QRM...
: WHO do we send our logs of all his doings to?
Luck Hurder at ARRL says that you should contact your local
ARRL person. These are (allegedly) listed in QST.
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Michael S. Sattler msattler@netcom.com +1 (415) 621-2903
Digital Jungle Software Encrypt now; ask me how. (finger for PGP key)
All that is required for evil to triumph is
for {wo}men of good will to do nothing.
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Date: 8 Dec 93 21:57:21 GMT
From: hayes!bcoleman@uunet.uu.net
Subject: Scratchi, January, 1960
To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
In article <gregCHo43F.9o4@netcom.com>, greg@netcom.com (Greg Bullough) writes:
>
> However, the posting of racist material without some explanation is
> distinctly unwelcome, and may be extremely offensive to some who read
> this forum.
Granted. Why don't we have a show of hands of those who were offended by
the Scratchi editorial?
> I would hope that we would endeavor to include as many people as possible
> in this forum; blindly posting racially offensive material is not the
> way to do that.
Greg, I think you are overreacting. While the material in Scratchi may have
the potential for offense, let's be clear here that someone was actually
offended before we send Myron away.
All this political correctness is enough to make one puke.
--
Bill Coleman, AA4LR ! CIS: 76067,2327 AppleLink: D1958
Principal Software Engineer ! Packet Radio: AA4LR @ W4QO
Hayes Microcomputer Products, Inc. ! UUCP: uunet!hayes!bcoleman
POB 105203 Atlanta, GA 30348 USA ! Internet: bcoleman%hayes@uunet.uu.net
Disclaimer: "My employer doesn't pay me to have opinions."
Quote: "The same light shines on vineyards that makes deserts." -Steve Hackett.
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Date: Tue, 7 Dec 1993 20:27:56 GMT
From: olivea!news.bu.edu!att!cbnewsm!hellman@uunet.uu.net
Subject: Scratchi, January, 1960
To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
Val: since you have a 40 mtr dipole, you might convert it into a center fed
wire to try it on 80. What you want to do is short the inner and outer coax
conductors and then make a short single wire connecction to your tuner
(such that you DO NOT just ground the tuner output). That will turn your
dipole into an L antenna with the feedline radiating as (hopefully) a vertical.
It sometimes works surprisingly well-- just be careful --- the coax connector
will be at rf ---- .
If your feedline is ladder line, I believe this is called a Marconi antenna,
but it can be used with coax ---I do this to use my 80 meter dipole on 40
and some people do this to use their 80 meter antenna on 160.
73 Shel Darack WA2UBK dara@physics.att.com
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Date: 9 Dec 93 08:16:27 GMT
From: news-mail-gateway@ucsd.edu
Subject: Scratchi article
To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
I think that the Scratchi text was not blatantly racist, but does portray
a stereotype of Asians. This stereotype (poor English but high technical
skills, use of the word "honorable" like in cheesy movies) isn't outrightly
negative but subtly so. It's like one kid picking on another by imitating
him in some way. But when the victim complains, the teacher doesn't see it,
so nothing happens. Still, it might bother the imitated, even though the
intent probably (I hope!) wasn't to slander people of Asian descent.
I realize that this article is over 30 years old, and can be viewed as a
sort of "museum piece" today. Also, I hope that Asians today are
thick-skinned enough to not be bothered by this. But I still think we need
to watch out for subtle racism. I'm not big into PC, but I do believe that
people shouldn't try to offend others.
Sincerely,
Scott Gigot, N9VOM
segigot@students.wisc.edu
The ticket was the easy part; now I need to get the FCC to send me a
radio!
P.S. 7 weeks, 2 days for the license to arrive
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Date: Mon, 6 Dec 1993 21:17:08 GMT
From: nntp.ucsb.edu!library.ucla.edu!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!howland.reston.ans.net!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!usenet.ucs.indiana.edu!silver.ucs.indiana.edu!djadams@network.ucsd.edu
Subject: Weird QRM
To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
Greetings! I was working 80m the other night sending out my usual
559 signal (I've GOT to get a better antenna up!), when I got a weird
sounding signal on my frequency. It sounded exactly like the annoying tone
you get when you leave the phone off the hook.
Well...I thought this was strange so, I moved up about 10 khz to a clear
freq. Called QRL?...no answer...started tapping CQ...after about 3 calls,
it's back....moved back to my old freq...qrl...clear...cq a few times...
tone is back and LOUD!..changed a few more times and it kept following
me..I eventually turned the radio off in frustration...Does anyone know
what this might be?...or is it a who?
Thanks!
73 de Dave, N9UXU
David J Adams, N9UXU Internet: djadams@silver.ucs.indiana.edu
Amiga User and Flow Cytometry Advocate
Looking for a mobile 2m and/or 70cm rig
Conure Society of America. "Push the button Frank..."
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Date: Thu, 2 Dec 1993 22:19:48 GMT
From: dog.ee.lbl.gov!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!math.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!hpscit.sc.hp.com!cupnews0.cup.hp.com!jholly@network.ucsd.edu
Subject: Windows Based Ham Programs
To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
Kenneth L Florence (klf@ecdcsvr.tredydev.unisys.com) wrote:
: Hi All, Besides the commercial packages available, are there any Windows
: based ahm programs available. What I am specifically looking for are a
: fair to gud Windows Packet pgm and a Windows based Rig keyer pgm. I hv
: seen a commercial package that is a complete logging, packet, rig control
: package (Logview, Packview, Rigview), but feel the performance of the Log
: database is terrible (at least for a 386sx!). If you hv seen anything gud
: or hv written one urself, plz let me know. Tnks. De KA3PLS, Ken....
There is a shareware product called writelog(?). I think it is on Simtel
and the mirrors. Don't know if it does rig control. My experience is that
windows on a 386sx leaves much to be desired....but then again I work on
a fairly good box at work. DXlog and others work fine from a DOS environment.
For contesting there is CT, NA, and N6TR's programs. For CQP, SS and WPX
AE6Y puts out a freeware window program.
73, Jim, WA6SDM
jholly@cup.hp.com
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